Taktser Rinpoche, 86, the oldest brother of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, has died in his home in Indiana after a prolonged illness, the office of the Tibetan government- in-exile in India said Saturday.
Rinpoche, a former representative of the Dalai Lama in Japan and a former abbot of Kumbum monastery in Amdo, Tibet, died Friday evening, it said in a statement.
After leaving Tibet in the 1950s, Rinpoche taught Tibetan studies at Indiana University, where he founded the Tibetan Cultural Center in 1979.
Alain Jacquet, 69, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died, the French Embassy said.
Jacquet, who lived in New York and Paris, died of cancer Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the embassy said in a statement.
Jacquet’s work often reflected the sensibilities of pop art, which emerged in Britain and the United States in the 1950s and ’60s and drew on advertising, comics and other pieces of popular culture.
